portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries coronavirus lock down iran people in power on a. stabbing incident in the scottish city of glasgow at least 3 people have been killed according to british media. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching also 0 live from doha also coming up mexico city security chief has been injured in a shootout will be life in the capital. iraqi forces raid the headquarters of an iranian backed group accused of attacking u.s. military facilities. with half a 1000000 concern coronavirus caseys india prepares

a joint care facility to help tackle the surge in infection. begin with breaking news coming to us out of the u.k. british media reporting 3 people have been stabbed to death in an attack in the scottish city of glasgow the incident reportedly took place in the stairwell of a local hotel the local police force that's police scotland is saying they are not looking for anyone else those comments followed the shooting that we think by a rapid response unit of the alleged perpetrator let's get more now from lawrence leigh our correspondent following the story lawrence those are the bare facts what else do we know. well there is that there are some conflicting reports peter in fact it's not even clear that the suspect in the case has been killed some reports say he was shot but wasn't killed. the idea that it was in

a hotel is also potentially slightly confusing it was a hotel building but the bins various reports one i heard suggesting that it was being used as a homeless hostel another report suggesting that the building had been used to house asylum seekers in recent times and so it doesn't sound like it was operating as a hotel obviously most hotels are completely shut anyway at the moment so all the operating as a as a hotel in the sense that you normally understand it is. past all that what we seem to know is that at about a just just under a couple of hours ago 3 people were stabbed in the in the stairwell of this building and. died as a result the suspect as we know has been shot it's unclear whether he's dead or alive for sure but obviously the main thing that everyone is asking is the motivation. because it was not a massacre assumption that it might be what the u.k. media would describe as terrorism or that something along those lines clearly we don't know that at all and it's more likely i imagine the not at the moment if it

was a homeless hostel that is a mental health related issue but none of the will be more details throughout the afternoon as a police give them we're looking at live pictures as you're talking to us lawrence an area there clearly in lockdown at the moment but the local police force stressing that the situation has been contained and their investigation must clearly carry on because it's an active crime scene now. well yes and clearly if the suspect isn't dead or and has been shot but a not died then obviously he seaming as he will need to be treated and then they'll feel and then they'll find presumably of what what what his motivation might have been or that they might be also in the process at the moment you assume of finding out if he had any relationship to the people who attacked but it tends to become clear within a few hours after this sort of event what the police think the motivation was another stabbing in reading west of london the other day which was carried out by

libyan and therefore it was also magically taken up by the end to terrorism police . so that then became the suggestion that it was it was to do with that but then again having said all that in the last couple of days i've been suggestions that that attack in that case had mental health issues as well so these things are often more complicated than they 1st appear to be ok lawrence for the moment thanks very much just must stay with those live pictures for a 2nd for you so details are sketchy at the moment we do know it's perhaps easier to separate out what we do know from what we don't know we do know that 3 people have lost their lives we do not know if the alleged perpetrator has been shot and injured or shot and killed by some sort of rapid response unit the put together from officers from police scotland the local police force that area of glasgow prosperous lots of restaurants lots of bars several big city center hotels well within walking distance of what you're looking at. right now laurence making the

perfectly valid significant point there whilst it may have been reported that it took place in the stairwell of a hotel there are also people saying that it took place in the stairwell of a hotel building or another building adjacent to a hotel building it may have been a hostel of some description because clearly at the moment you know all restaurants bars pubs clubs hotels etc they are closed at the moment up and the u.k. . because of the coronavirus covert 1900 pandemic and in that regard when it comes to having hotels that are operational or not the scottish parliament is directly aligned and in line with the london parliament which there are issues with devolved government there and whether the scottish parliament runs those aspects of the response to corona virus or not that's a different discussion so that's what we know at the moment what we don't know is whether the alleged assailant is dead or not what we don't know is if a policeman has lost his life or not because we have contradictory reports on that

as well active crime scene there in central glasgow scotland 2nd city will get you up to date with all the latest as and when we get it here on al-jazeera mexico city's chief of police has been injured during a targeted attack there in the capital gunshots could be heard across the upscale neighborhood in the city's western area where a shooter took place local authorities said 2 of his bodyguards were killed after a gunman set on the group let's go live now to mexico city and al jazeera correspondent there man well manuel just take us through what happened. you might still be able to hear the sirens we're actually very close to where the shooting took place less than a block away from the al-jazeera bureau here in mexico city this is what we know the attack took place at around 6 38 am local time just as people were starting starting off their days it was

a failed assassination attempt against omar to get c.-a had food he is the secretary of public security for the mexican capital essentially he is the chief of police for mexico city. the police report several deaths at this point including 2 police officers but we have yet to actually confirm that they're also saying that 12 suspects were detained in connection with this shooting there is amateur video available now on social media that that were you could hear the actual exchange of gunfire that last for somewhere around a minute police say that the assailants used high caliber weapons including 50 caliber sniper rifles and that the attackers also used grenades so this is this is not an everyday sort of thing that happens in mexico city we know that there's been an escalation of violence in the last few weeks in states like and in guadalajara mexico city this isn't the sort of the sort of instance that the people in this city are used to especially in this part of town were centrally in the center of the city but right behind right behind me you can see it on hilly independency

a famous landmark here in mexico city so this attack took place just at the beginning of the day just as people were getting their day started practically in broad daylight we know that the secretary of public security is quote unquote out of danger we don't know if he was actually shot we've seen images of his s.u.v. that he was part of a convoy that was being when he was attacked in the s.u.v.s riddled with with bullet marks the president of mexico and this man who looked as though it says that the motivation behind this must be a response from elements of organized crime here in mexico city responding to the efforts by the public security secretary to. to establish peace in the city and in the region is they're usually forgive me if this is a naive question manuel a claim of responsibility when something like this happens because as you say this doesn't happen in mexico city so that's particularly or dishes on the part of the

perpetrators absolutely this is the these are the same words that the mayor of mexico city club. said earlier so that this was an audacious assassination attempt as i mentioned before there are several elements of organized crime that operate here in mexico city. all over mexico really there are pockets of of instability pockets where the country's security forces actually don't have a presence because these elements of organized crime are so well organized and so heavily armed that we often do hear a claim of responsibility or often it's very obvious at the moment police are saying that in on that the investigation has only just begun so we don't really know the identities of the people who are responsible again 12 people at least have been detained at this point so i'm sure we will at some point soon know exactly who was responsible for the attack ok man well good still to you thanks very much money for respond with the reporting live on that crime scene incident in mexico city. we

move on iraqi security forces have raided the base belonging to an iran backed militia group 10 rockets were seized and at least 14 members of hezbollah were detained including commanders members of the group of demanding the release similar fulton is in baghdad. well we have now a statement an official statement from the government specifically from the iraqi joint operations command summarizing what happened last night when iraqi security forces raided a base belonging to the type of statement confirms that 14 individuals where arrested during the raid and several rockets were seized in an effort to preempt an impending attack on the fortified green zone where u.s. forces as well as other diplomatic missions are based now and we have seen several such drop the rocket attacks take place throughout the month and this raid appears to have been an attempt to try to clamp down on the groups responsible now the

statement did also mention that there was an arrest warrant that was issued against those 14 individuals and that is particularly important because in the wake of that raid we saw dozens of armed men presumably belonging to type as it entered the green zone and lease each to a building that belongs to the counterterrorism forces demanding the release of the detainees claiming that the arrest was lawful now there is also a lot of confusion about who exactly holds those 14 detainees the popular mobilization forces which includes. has said that they were released several other sources close to qatar possible have also confirmed that they were lit released however industry that we received from the government it confirms that those individuals are still in the custody of the authorities and that an investigation is ongoing the statement is however a very

a vague on 2 aspects it does not say it does not name the group that these 14 individuals belong to and it also does not name the security institution the iraqi security institution that is holding them so it is possible according to some analysts that these 14 people were in fact transferred to the security forces of the popular mobilization forces which includes the type of hezbollah. libya's national oil corporation says russian and other foreign mercenaries have stormed through our oil fields blocking the resumption of oil exports from the site after a months long blockade there's been no response from moscow yet on the allegations most of the country's main oil fields are under the control of the self-styled libyan national army based in to broke. in tripoli this development at the shore oil field is significant a convoy of 25 vehicles with the russian mercenaries and other foreign ministries into the shara oil field on thursday evening and also says

that it is deeply concerned that by. the developments in. oil field in about 700 kilometers south of the capital is the country's biggest oil field with the production capacity of about more than $300000.00 barrels a day and the country's already suffering the consequences of the blockade of the oil terminal in central libya by have to his forces since january there and he says that their total losses resulting from from that blockade is nearly $6000000000.00. france germany and italy are calling for an end to fighting in libya they want outside powers to end their involvement in the conflict to get talks back on track they received a joint statement saying in light of the growing risks of a teary aeration in libya and regional escalation we call on all libyan parties to

immediately cease fighting and to suspend the ongoing military buildup throughout the country they're also urging foreign actors to end all interference and to fully respect the arms embargo as established by the united nations security council earlier turkey said any cease fire would depend on the war totally for afters forces withdrawing from 2 regions and i'll do for and encourage does support the un backed government of national accord as also condemned russia for fueling instability by supporting hafter the g n a recently pushed back after its forces from the capital tripoli on weapons day arab leaders called for a truce and talks between the warring sides. still to come here on al-jazeera queuing for cash in lebanon struggling economy dollars are only available to a select few. for centuries the 700000 residents of washington d.c. have had no voting rights in congress now comes a vote a state for. the

. head of the still plenty more rain to come across more central and southern areas of china but also a very unsettled picture throughout much of japan all of this cloud is tied to the seasonal rains the my you buy a front big asian province in the southwest china has been particularly badly hit now in total about 11000000 people have been affected by these rains and these mudslides as well and as i say they have been very wise spectacles containing enough to several days in fact a wednesday and sunday city they picked up 180 millimeters in just one hour that is how heavy this rain is now 37. again is the central areas north as bad across much of the south on the south west that rain continuing to work its way east was on sunday and the facts and very heavy downpours working their way through more eastern areas of japan you can see it's a wet day like in tokyo with a high of 27 and then across into india the monsoon rains making very good progress

plenty of clouds you see here on the satellite indicating where you've had the showers and the thunderstorms a sunny 3 suffer day there is very heavy again for the northeast of india odisha be hot and also across into the final feast of bangladesh seeing some pretty heavy downpours as well and of course the rains have it down across the west and gastown into carola and as we go through sunday is a similar story where we are back to seeing more dry conditions is further to the north so a warm and dry day new delhi with a high for. joining the global community because the crisis is just slapped isn't the place to last in upon my skin upon human health equals global health keeping you up to date as was the voice situation where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the health crisis your questions. just

nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must call the stream on out 0. we're watching all to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour british media reporting that at least 3 people have been stabbed and killed in an attack in the scottish city of glasgow it happened right in the city center scottish police have confirmed one officer has been seriously injured there are other unconfirmed reports saying that the assailant was shot to.

mexico city's chief of police has been injured during a targeted attack in the capital gunshots could be heard across the upscale neighborhood in the city's west area or a shootout took place one of the story iraqi security forces of raids a base belonging to an iranian backed militia group of armed fighters belonging to could have hezbollah and are demanding the release of the 14 members who were detained. india is nearing nearly half a 1000000 coronavirus cases with its biggest spike since the pandemic began the country's largest care facility is being readied in south delhi to tackle the surge in infections is the size of 15 football fields and can accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time this branom has this update from new delhi. the government has just confirmed that the facility facility is now ready to start taking patients it was a spiritual center that used to host for up to 300000 people that's been converted into a treatment facility and that by the end of next week it will have 10000 beds they

say that it's going to have 400 doctors oxygen facilities its own testing lab ambulances and paramedics but those who need critical care those needing ventilators will be referred to nearby hospitals now as well as this facility the delhi government has also been conversing hotels banquet halls train carriages into treatment centers as the number of cases in delhi continue to rise they are going up by nearly 4000 just in the capital alone and. they doubled in fact the number of tests that they conducted this week and they are expecting more than half a 1000000 cases by the end of next month and so that's why they're expanding health care facilities they're expanding testing all of this is welcome but the fact is that while they are expanding facilities they don't have enough health care workers to man them. after weeks of seeing at least 90 rohingya refugees have been rescued

off the coast of indonesia that boat was towed to shore by locals after the authorities refused to let them land because of coronavirus fears they are being given shelter by the community and the medical checks as well. a state funeral has been held for president. thousands of people gathered in the capital to build him farewell the occasion included military honors and religious ceremonies but there are worries there is no social distancing in place despite the threat from coronavirus and korean aziza died earlier this month while still in office. the u.s. house of representatives is due to vote on whether to grant full statehood to washington d.c. the nation's capital if it passes the house and then the senate the districts more than $700000.00 residents would finally have representation and full voting rights in congress mike hanna explains the residents of washington d.c. the district of columbia have been denied their right to fully participate in their

democracy since the founding of the nation's capital over 2 centuries ago it's been a district and not part of the state it has no governor and its elected representative has no boat in congress statehood is priceless statehood assures there living in the nation's capitol. it's about pride not prejudice. this was the moment at which the districts tried to stay to the chief real traction federal offices disperse protesters outside the white house in an action ordered by the trumpet ministration not by the city's elected officials there shouldn't be troops from other states and washington d.c. and their very definitely shouldn't be soldiers stationed around our city waiting for the girl to attack americans in a local policing matter in

a city where nearly half the population is african american statehood is a civil rights issue at all holmes norton has represented d.c. for nearly 3 decades she's the great granddaughter of a slave who found freedom in the district but not representation in congress i feel their boss as a member who represents my city. and of course i feel and in my own lineage as a 3rd generation washingtonian who has never experienced all of it within their own country so for me this is patriotic and it's for the president has made clear he will oppose any move to statehood as would his fellow republican the senate majority leader. a plan to make the district of columbia stayed true to democratic senators. but those advocating statehood doctor taking a long term view hoping that the composition of the senate and the occupant of the white house will change often i've been busily action as i must. now.

show a strong likelihood that my party the democratic party in the united states will take control of the senate as my party the democrats have taken control of the house the bill is certain to pass in the house but given republican opposition it will take an election where the mayors hope of the few one stars on the u.s. flag to become a reality by kind of al-jazeera washington syria is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis according to the united nations world food program and says $1300000.00 syrians and food in secure $1400000.00 of them becoming so in just the last 6 months prices have gone up more than 200 percent inflation there has reached levels not even seen at the height of syria's 9 year long conflict. levanon central bank is launching an electronic foreign exchange trading platform in a desperate effort to stabilize the country's exchange rates than the euro has lost

nearly 70 percent of its value on the black market and recent months because of a lack of foreign currency zone a hoarder now reports. licensed exchange shops are only selling dollars to a selected few among them or people who need to pay a foreign worker or buy an airline ticket it's a 1st for lebanon where the foreign currency has long been used in transactions but the country has run out of dollars due to a deep economic crisis that has led to the collapse of the local currency attempts by the central bank to stabilize the rate including launching an electronic trading platform have so far failed they've been trying to fix the price of them. at a rate that is just not reflective of what demand and supply is so they've been just trying to fix it at a very low rate unfortunately unfortunately the euro has lost at least 75 percent of its value on the black market since october nearly 50 percent in the past month

many are hurting in a country that is import dependent. my follow to use it to be $750.00 an hour with was less than $200.00 lebanon needs fresh dollars but money from abroad has stopped flowing in. many war and the exchange rate instability will continue without foreign assistance a return of confidence in the economy and as long as those who have 2 been on the worst financial crisis are in power. discussions with the international monetary fund on a bailout have made no progress the political elite the central bank and the banking sector are still arguing over who is responsible for bankruptcy in this state they're also failing to carry out reforms like fighting corruption a member of the negotiating team resigned in protest it is the state in all its opera that has resigned from its own responsibilities they have a responsibility to do reforms they have a responsibility to take ownership of the losses in the financial system and to

ensure the stability of the financial sector it's desperate times up to 45 percent of a nation of nearly 5000000 people live below the poverty line when. people are selling the gold to pay hospital fees tuition fees and loans on their homes. all the while the state's foreign currency reserves are being depleted we've better stop printing lebanese found their way to stop doing that is to do economic reforms because why are we printing lebanese pounds because we want to finance government expenditure protesters who have been demanding a new leadership for months are losing hope they held a symbolic funeral for lebanon as their country sinks deeper into crisis. beirut. there are calls for the international criminal court to launch an investigation into potential war crimes committed by israel the courts pretrial chambers looking at what jurisdiction it has over the occupied palestinian territories for many palestinians they say they want justice the abraham spoke to one family whose son

was killed by the israeli army near bethlehem. this is the house. to live in after he got married but that plan never came to be the 23 year old was killed by an israeli soldier last year mother says he was helping a family after they were also shot at by israeli soldiers. the attack happened close to a military watchtower near bethlehem in the south of the occupied west bank the israeli military prosecution says it's considering legal action against the soldier so. he'll be put under house arrest i don't expect more than that they did the same in other cases i don't expect a serious sentence but i don't think we should stay silent the whole world should know that we are being oppressed. signs of distress can't be missed in this house.

trying to help this family after the father. was shot he says his car had broken down when the soldiers shot at him he was taken to hospital leaving his wife and daughters in the car i just know how to read came to the car to help us restart the engine but the car didn't work so he left to check something we later found out he was shot and killed we heard shots before he entered the car after. the family thinks i might have been shot unintentionally but don't expect compensation he's had several operations and has been out of work since human rights organizations say israeli courts give an illusion of justice when the victims palestinian indictments against soldiers are hard to come across and documentation is becoming more important than ever the organization documents cases of what it says are extrajudicial killings it wants the international criminal court to investigate

some of these cases. israeli soldiers usually get reduced sentences this is one way of preventing the i.c.c. from taking on the case because it would be double jeopardy to the sentences not proportional to the crime will the i.c.c. look at this case i can't answer that precisely but it should be able to. smothers says his death has devastated the family and nothing will compensate for that loss but the fear sentence for his killer could help at least she says she would feel like she fought for her son's right after he's gone. the occupied west bank. the reopening of an airport south of paris was disrupted by climate action protesters around 30 demonstrators from extinction rebellion made it onto the runway at all the airport the police were called in one of the terminals was closed because of a suspicious package airport has been shut down for the past 3 months due to

coronavirus restrictions. more news top stories and interesting articles on the website address al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories british media is reporting that at least 3 people have been stabbed to death in an attack in glasgow that scotland 2nd city it happened in the city center the attacker has died after being shot by armed police police scotland confirming one officer has been seriously injured lawrence lee explains they are there are conflicting reports about what the building where it happened was being used for it doesn't sound like it was operating as a hotel obviously most hotels are completely shut anywhere at the moment so all the while not raising as a as a hotel in the sense that you'd normally understand it but past all that what we

seem to know is that at about just just under a couple of hours ago 3 people were stabbed in the stairwell of this building and. died as a result the suspect as we know has been shot it's unclear whether he's dead or alive for sure but obviously the main thing that everyone is asking is the motivation. mexico city's chief of police has been injured during a targeted attack in the capital. gunshots could be heard across the upscale neighborhood in the city's west where a shootout took place local authorities said 2 of his bodyguards were killed iraqi security forces have raided a base belonging to an iran backed militia group fighters belonging to cause have hezbollah and are demanding the release of the 14 members who were detained. libya's national oil corporation says russian and other foreign mercenaries are stormed out our oil field they're blocking the resumption of oil exports from the site after a months long blockade there's been no response from moscow to get on those

allegations. france germany and italy are calling for an end to fighting in libya they want outside powers to end the involvement in the conflict to get talks back on track earlier turkey said any cease fire would depend on the warlords early for after us forces withdrawing from 2 key regions search and jew from. india is nearing half a 1000000 coronavirus cases with its biggest spike since the pandemic began the country's largest care facility is being got ready in south delhi to tackle the surgeon infections it is the size of 15 football fields and can accommodate more than 10000 patients at a time. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream adrian is here with the news from 15 g. i will see you very soon for the moment but. in a highly controversial move israel is expected to onic several illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. as nothing young's government tests the limits of

regional diplomacy and security will this mean an end to the 2 state solution. israel the knicks ation on a just 0. and 3 ok you're watching in the stream now the global pandemic was announced at the end of january and since then the stream has done a number of shows most of them about challenges and missteps but not today today's a celebrates the story about the stolen state of carolina in india and we have to thank for that in a cool venue they told us in an instagram live session about the story here. so this is one topic sort of not uncommon 1.